The Daily Mail, however, were not impressed with Laca’s war wounds, referring to it as a ‘scratch’. While it’s certainly nothing serious, the bruising around the cut clearly shows the force with which he was hit.

Daily Mail 2 April 2018

It’s not clear if this came from Joe Allen’s ridiculous challenge on Lacazette, but the Daily Mail fail to even reference it.

Joe Allen gets nutmegged by Lacazette. Allen then maliciously slide tackles Laca from behind. I hate players that get worked up when they get outplayed. Get better instead.

5 mins to go, game over as a contest and Joe Allen does this just because Lacazette turns him inside out, but not a word from the pundits, just imagine if Xhaka had this to one of their players? It would be all they would have discussed and I bet he would have got a red

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